The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1887-08-13
FACTS ron FAaMGRa.
Good, heavy farm horses sell woll

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In France over two hundred thou
sand people are engaged in raising
beets for sugar.
In hitching horses In stalls give
them rope enough only to allow ths
animal to get his nose down TO the
floor. or very near 1t.
Wells on the farm should be thor
oughly cleaned out in the spring and
fall. At this season there will be few
wells that will not contain toads both
alive and in state Of decomposition.
The Courtes Pattes is new French
breed Of fowls recently introduced In
this country. They arc non settlers.
and have very short legs and largs
bodies. making very compact appear.
anoc when dressed for market
The heaviest lamb ever raised in
the United States. an OK ford. which
attained one hundred pounds In nine
months, was fed all the ground DATA in
addition to its mothers milk. it could
eat A twin sister reached eighty-sev.
en- pounds in the same period. Indian.
apolis Journal.
"A good motto for the farmer to
write over his barn door would be:
'Push along; keep moving" There
is whole library Of good counsel in
these words. It is the soul Of progress
and improvement. Push along, keep
moving.
The National Agricultural De.
partment report makes the decrease in
the hog supply 1900. 600 from last
year, and the hog cholera still do
vastating the herds in some parts Of
tho country. This points to good prices
for = year at least. Z
The most valuable elements of ma.
nure are not to be measured by the
cord. The liquid and gaseous portions
are the most valuable, and also the
hardest to hold. They are the first to
escape, and pass of unnoticed through
such an easy outlet
Better prices are being paid for
colts and undeveloped horses now than
have been ever known before. Good
breeding and good pedigree are guar.
antees upon which to judge the future
horse. and buyers can afford to take
more chances now than they could be.
fore the matter of breeding received
the attention it now does.
Dragging harrow over the plowed
ground is one of the hardest tasks that
horses have to do in farm work, and
teams are often imposed upon while
doing it. The walking is hard for both
driver and horses, and the forcasr is
often tempted to ride either on the har
row or on one Of the horses, not think.
ing or caring what the consequences
really are. ST. Louis Republican.
The presence Of organic matter In
the soil increase its fertility by equal.
zing the amount Of water which the
soil will retain, so it defends the plant
against drouths. 1t not only absorbs
water like sponge when 1t rains, but
in dry weather it abstracts moisture
from the air which it yields to the
plant, besides it arrests and retains
certain kinds Of plant food which
might otherwise be washed away or
down through the soil by rains
Golden Rule.
For the perfect keeping Of milk.
says writer, it is necessary to cool
the milk on being drawn from the COW.
The dairyman who neglects to do this
part of his business fails to do his duty
to the milk and his customer, for it is
well known to those who have invest.
gated the subje OF that when fresh milk
is shut up in a tight vessel without
cooling and allowed to cool off itself, It
develops very disagreeable odor, and
the researches Of Professors Newton
and Wallace at Long Branch lately
proved the danger Of using milk that
has not been properly treated.